Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-cinder-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Chelmsford MP: Marie Goldman (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, 1 and 2, Brook End Road, Chelmer, CM2 6NZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 737 073
- Coordinates
- 51.73759, 0.51451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a 17th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on Springfield Brook End Road. It is a two-story building with a symmetrical west front featuring a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century casements, some with lattice leaded lights, and others with glazing bars. The roof is tiled with a double pitch and gables at both the north and south ends. The interior retains exposed timber framing.
Local climate
Brook House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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